500 years of Russian art. Icons. Painting. Graphics. DPI. Book rarity. Autographs, documents, letters from the personal collections
ARTinvestment.RU   26 ноября 2019

On Saturday, November 30, at the auction house "Antiquarium" will be held live auction No. 61. In the directory — 212 lots

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the directory contains:

— Russian icons of XVI–XIX centuries;
— archive "artist of the three emperors" by Mikhail Zichy with the originals of illustrations to Lermontov's "Princess Mary";
— "Reasoning..." Peter Shafirov, "Atlas of the entire Baltic sea", "Journey to Khiva" (with an Atlas!) Nikolai Muravyov, "Military gallery of the Winter Palace", "History and monuments of Byzantine enamel" and many other bibliophilic Unico;
— of the first publication of Denis Fonvizin, Vasily Kapnist, Alexander Pushkin;
— decorative-прикладного art;
— paintings and drawings by Leonid Solomatkin, Vasily Polenov, Abram Arkhipov, Maximilian Voloshin, Sergei Chekhonin, albert, Alexander and Nicholas Benois, Evgeny Lanceray, Alexei Pakhomov, Kim Britova, Eugene Kropiwnicki, Mikhail Shemyakin Anatoly Zverev, Vladimir Yakovlev;
— autographs of Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Sergei Dovlatov, Aleksandr Kushner, Eugene Reyna, Oleg Grigoriev, Vladimir kotljarova-Толстого unpublished anthology "Mitki-Мулета";
— posters of the Civil war era.

Opens a directory category of "Speculation in paints" outstanding examples of icon painting of the Novgorod school — "St. arch Martyr George victorious" (first half of XVI century), dago harmony letters — image of the Nile Stolobensky (second half of XVIII century) and images of St John the Baptist, Nicholas, of St. Eudoxia (all — XIX century) in a beautiful jewelry salaries.

Top-лот trading — archive of Hungarian artist Mikhail Zichy (1827-1906), almost half a century worked at the court of Russian emperors. Along with the photos in the family archives preserved 63 sheet original artist's illustrations to the novel of Mikhail Lermontov's "Princess Mary", is still considered lost.

Rare and valuable editions of the XVIII–XX centuries is in the collection of the auction a special place. "The reasoning is any legitimate reason his Majesty (...) to the start of the war against the king Carol the 12 (...) had a..." (1722) Vice-канцлера Peter Shafirov, — the first Russian book on international law, written with the participation of Peter I. the monumental work of Ivan Golikov "acts of Peter the Great, the wise reformer of Russia" (1837-1843) published many archival documents and letters. One of the best illustrated editions of the XIX century — "Military gallery of the Winter Palace" (1845-1849) in six volumes — includes engraved portraits and biographies of the generals of the Patriotic war of 1812. Rare books, devoted to geography and travel: "Atlas of the entire Baltic sea..." (1757) Alexey Nagaev, "Siberian history" by Johann Fischer (1774), "Peoples of Russia" (1812-1813) Karl the assistance of rechberg, "the Journey to Turkmenia and Khiva" (complete with the rare "Atlas"!) Nikolai Muravyov (1822), "Panorama Of St. Petersburg" Alexander Bashutsky (1834).

Printing masterpiece and perhaps the most expensive book in the history of domestic book printing — "History and monuments of Byzantine enamel: From the collection of A. V. Zvenigorodsky" (1892). Our copy of — with rare bookmark.

Section add: the first edition of the Comedy of Vasily Kapnist "Sneak" (1798), almost immediately after the release of arrested censorshipand first publications of poems by Alexander Pushkin in magazines "Herald of Europe" (1814) and "Sorevnovatel of enlightenment and charity" (1819). Two books of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich. One of them, dedicated to count Paul Stroganov (1903), — autographed by the August historian.

a Unique archive of Admiral Alexei Ivanovich Polanski (1698-1764), his brother Alexander (1721-1818) and nephew Alexander Alexandrovich (1774-1818), covering a rich century of Russian history — from Peter I to Alexander I. the Historical documents signed by famous historical figures, including — Anna Ioannovna (3 autographs!), Catherine II (5 autographs!), Christopher Minich, Nicholas Golovin, Mikhail Golitsyn, etc.

Decorated a collection of picturesque and graphic works of Adolf Gebissa, Leonid Solomatkin, Sergei Chekhonin, Evgeny Lanceray, albert, Alexander and Nicholas Benois. We emphasize the study of Vasily Polenov (1890-е) and poetic "Moonlight Sonata" Maximilian Voloshin (1928) with a dedicatory inscription, presumably addressed to Marina Novikova-Принц.

Eleven works from the family archives of the prominent Leningrad graphic and book Illustrator Alexey Pakhomov show the evolution of expressive means from the "industrial" drawing "Tractor" (1920-е) the charm of "children's" illustrations for the books of L. N. Tolstoy "Filipok. Page from "ABC""(1970-е) — one of the latest and best works of the artist.

In the "St. Petersburg collection" — instances of poems of prominent poets of the twentieth century: the manuscript of "When I miss..." by Alexander Kushner, "a Night in the village" (in memory of Anna Akhmatova) Eugene Rhine with the author's corrections and "Nadezhda Filippovna, sweetie..." by Joseph Brodsky with a dedicatory inscription of the Nobel laureate. Nursery rhymes, stories, and the first publication of Sergei Dovlatov from the archives of his classmate. Letters of Joseph Catchy and Sergei Dovlatov after emigration. Photo portrait of Vladimir Nabokov with the signature of the writer on the back. Remarkable almanac "Friendship" (1969) with the restored hand of Oleg Grigoriev doconsume variants of his poems.

"Second culture" of the Soviet period discussed in the section "Poets and artists. Bronze age". Nonconformity appears in the works of Anatoly Zverev and his students Hope Salnikovoy, Evgeny Kropivnitsky, Vladimir Yakovlev, Henry Khudyakov. Of Sots art — Vyacheslav Sysoev, Vitaliy Komar and Alexander Melamid. Unconditional interest is the first issue of "M. A. N. I." (Moscow Archive of Unofficial Art) from the collection of the poet Lev Rubinstein. It contains typewritten software articles and photos of artistic actions of the representatives of Moscow conceptualism. Exhibition "Under the parachute" in the apartment of poet Konstantin Kuzminsky (1974) — is one of the landmark events in the life of the Leningrad underground. It exhibited a concept book of the poet Arkady Dragomoschenko, and photographer Gennady Prihodko "a Great monotony of love". The original-макет unpublished anthology "Mitki-Мулета" (1991-1992), was, according to editor Alexander Florensky, "a monument to Mitkicarelessness" that he could not overcome even the Creator of "Muleta" Vladimir Kotlyarov-Толстый, writing and art-объекты which entered into the category of unofficial art.

the Directory is crowned by erotic g-string with works of Stepan Rojankovski, Oleg Frontinsky and Victor Tikhomirov.

pre-Auction exhibition is open until November 29, from 12:00 to 20:00 at the address: Moscow, Sadovaya-Кудринская, 25, "Antique center", 2-й floor gallery of the Auction house "KABINET".

the Auction will be held on November 30 at the address: Moscow, Sadovaya-Кудринская, 25, 3-й floor. Auction start at 16:00.
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Applications for absentee participation and bidding by phone are accepted until 29 November.

Source: press-релиз auction house "Antiquarium"